Wednesday, November 18, 2015

ICYMI: How Voter ID Can Stop Absentee Voter Fraud

Vote fraud deniers often criticize voter ID saying it does
not address absentee ballot fraud.Heritage scholar Hans Von Spakovsky has a great
comeback based on Kansas’s law:

An excellent model would be
Kansas’ voter identification law. Under the Kansas S.A.F.E. Act, voters must
provide photographic identification to vote at the polls. A few of the accepted
forms of identification include driver’s licenses, state identification cards,
U.S. passports, student ID’s, and concealed hand gun licenses.

To vote absentee, one must
include a copy of an accepted form of photo identification, or provide a full
Kansas driver’s license or nondriver ID number when requesting the absentee
ballot or returning the voted ballot.

Voter ID is a great tool to stop all kinds of vote
fraud. Maybe this is one of the reasons
it is so popular.